Although there is no way to answer these questions, Chen Kangbo has a way to end this problem.
If you can't solve the problem, then get rid of the person who raised the problem. Then won't the problem cease to exist?
Of course he couldn't kill Wang Qi, he didn't have the ability, but he knew that what was more important than killing was killing one's heart.
He had used this method in the past to fight for power and defeat those hateful capitulationists and conservatives. What he wanted was to seize power by any means necessary and promote the Northern Expedition of the Song Dynasty.
The Song Dynasty cannot settle down in a corner, otherwise it will be wiped out sooner or later. The Song Dynasty must be aggressive and must regain the Central Plains. Otherwise, once the Sui Dynasty is established, there will be no need to keep Nanchen.
However, he still failed to promote the Northern Expedition of the Southern Song Dynasty before the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, and he felt deeply resentful.
So he no longer cares about the means, as long as he can achieve the goal, especially at this moment when the country is in danger, the means are not important, what is important is the goal, and the means are not important.
Just like this at this moment.
"Master Wang is so disrespectful of rules and has no regard for superiority and inferiority. May I ask how His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty views this matter?"
Chen Kangbo felt that once this question was asked, it would end everything. .
Because no emperor would tolerate an unruly official appearing in his court.
No matter how good-tempered the emperor himself is, he will not tolerate anyone really offending his face. For the emperor, this is not only a matter of face, but also a matter of life and death.
Therefore, when the ministers came to remonstrate, they really tried their best. If they didn't control the scale and went too far, the emperor would be so angry that even if he didn't kill you, he would directly demote you to the land of Lingnan. If you don't get killed, you would still be on the way. Death from exhaustion and illness.
If you offend the emperor, the emperor will have 10,000 ways to kill you.
However, the scene Chen Kangbo hoped to see did not appear.
Wang Qi laughed.
laugh?
you laugh?
Wang Qi not only laughed, but also said.
"Don't worry, Mr. Chen. What I just said...are all words said by His Majesty the Ming Emperor himself. His Majesty the Ming Emperor once discussed this issue with us. I am just repeating His Majesty the Ming Emperor's views on this matter."
Chen Kangbo was stunned on the spot and couldn't react for a while.
The same was true for Yu Yunwen and Lu You, unable to react.
Although Su Yonglin calls himself the Human Emperor and not the Emperor, he still carries the title of an emperor and walks around the world as an emperor, giving orders and making people obey his orders.
In the end, he could actually say such a thing?
What kind of emperor is he?
Seeing Chen Kangbo's dumbfounded look, Wang Qi laughed happily, and then began to eat meat and cakes.
He ate two large bowls of fragrant meat and plenty of cooking cakes. The food he ate was exactly the same as that of the farmers who were busy at the construction site. There was no difference.
From then on, Chen Kangbo and others hardly spoke to each other along the way, and they were not very willing to talk to Wang Qi. The sense of alienation and resistance that could not be hidden in their words was obvious.
On the other hand, Lu You looked at Wang Qi with expectant eyes many times, but he didn't know what reason to use to chat with him alone, and his heart was filled with regret.
On their way north, the Southern Song Dynasty envoys saw the Ming Dynasty's developed post system and road card system. Although they did not see whether the Ming Dynasty's army had progressed, they saw the Ming Dynasty's construction of water conservancy projects and transportation projects all over the country.
This is not just a project, behind it lies the Ming Dynasty’s developed grassroots governance and strong mobilization power.
Watching the Ming Dynasty extend its rule to the grassroots, a huge number of grassroots organizations organize the people to carry out a large number of project constructions. If they can get together to carry out such project construction without riots, then they can be transformed into military offensives in the future. timely logistics support.
To be honest, other feelings are not particularly obvious, that is, Chen Kangbo and others, especially Yu Yunwen, feel particularly anxious about the fact that the farmers of the Ming Dynasty participated in the project honestly without any signs of rebellion.
They are unwilling to admit that the Ming Dynasty used proper governance and generous treatment to make farmers willing to work for them. They are not willing to believe that the Ming Dynasty really gave wages and three meals a day to these peasants who should have been doing corvee work for free.
When they got together to discuss the matter in private, Chen Kangbo insisted that what they saw was specially decorated by the Ming Dynasty. Although it was incredible, the more incredible it was, the more it became clear that it was disguised by the Ming Dynasty.
They were unwilling and simply unable to believe that the system of the Ming Dynasty was really beyond their imagination.
But Yu Yunwen still had to raise his biggest worry.
That is, when the Ming Dynasty launched large-scale projects and large-scale group actions, the costs required were far lower than those expected in the Southern Song Dynasty.
"If they don't even need to send out troops, and even let the farmers do the arming themselves, it means that the mutual trust between the Ming Dynasty court and the farmers is far beyond what we thought, and the Ming Dynasty only needs to pay for the project , without any additional cost.”
Yu Yunwen put forward the worst prediction to Chen Kangbo: "If what we see is true, although it is impossible, but... there is still a slight possibility, even if it is only a slight possibility, this is true. , then while the Ming Dynasty was carrying out the Yellow River Project, it might not be incapable of waging war."
Chen Kangbo frowned and had to admit that what Yu Yunwen said was slightly possible.
That is to say, the court of the Ming Dynasty was not worried about peasants gathering to riot and did not invest military costs for this. The people of the Ming Dynasty also trusted the court and would not initiate riots.
In this way, the cost that the Ming Dynasty had to pay for launching large-scale projects was really only the cost of the project itself, with no other additional expenses.
There is no need to pay military expenses to the army, there is no need to spend military expenses and military rations, and there will be no additional corruption costs.
This means that the Ming Dynasty retains the ability to wage war.
How terrifying is this?
But Chen Kangbo couldn't understand it and didn't want to believe it was true.
"If all this is true, how did they do it? How could those stupid men and women be of the same mind as them? Could it be... is everything written in the Hongwu political treatise true? Su Yonglin was not lying? That kind of thing Can nonsense be true? Can it be realized? "
Chen Kangbo was full of surprise and uncertainty, and looked at Yu Yunwen, then turned to look at Lu You, who had been silent.
Yu Yunwen sat on a chair, put his hands on his forehead, and whispered: "I suggest to Your Majesty that the way to destroy the Yellow River Project of the Ming Dynasty is to use the grievances of the working farmers to spread rumors and encourage them to launch riots, thereby disrupting the progress of the Yellow River Project. .
But if the working farmers have no grievances, then what's the use of rumors? How could those working farmers start a riot? I don't want to believe that it is true, but...but what if it is really true? "
Feeling Chen Kangbo's uncertainty and Yu Yunwen's wavering, Lu You unexpectedly felt very calm.
"When considering things, you always have to consider the worst outcome. According to this, the worst outcome, what we see, is real. Everything is true, including what Wang Qi said. Everything you say is true.”
Yu Yunwen raised his head and looked at Lu You.
"impossible."
Lu You was confused.
"Why isn't it possible?"
Yu Yunwen shook his head.
"It's just impossible. I never believe this is true. I never believe it!"
Chen Kangbo also echoed Yu Yunwen's opinion.
"I don't believe it either. There must be fraud in this. It must be a treacherous plot by the Ming Dynasty. They want to shake our determination. Their intentions are sinister and must be investigated!"
Lu You said nothing more and lowered his head, but he felt a different feeling in his heart.
If all this was true, and what he saw and heard was true, then it was useless no matter how much they doubted it, and it was useless no matter how much they denied it.
Are there really no people in this world who are dedicated to serving the public good?
No, there is, there must be.
It's just that they don't want to believe it.
Lu You felt strange, why didn't they want to believe it?
Just because the Ming Dynasty is an enemy country, do you not want to believe that all this is true?
Lu You doesn't understand.
Seeing the resistance on Yu Yunwen and Chen Kangbo's faces, he didn't understand.
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